Russian Culture Society at the University of Texas-Arlington

***RCS Meeting Reminder 9/23/16***

It’s been a simple week, so I’ll keep this weeks update nice and short. On Friday we need to finalize our officer positions as we have until that afternoon to submit our roster. We will review the past ALLIES banquet and plan for a packing party to help pack all the newly acquired goodies into care packages that are to be shipped off overseas. We also need to decide on a film for our Oct. 6 movie night. That’s it for now, but if you haven’t already, please join us on our FB group to stay up to date on all our happenings and catch postings providing further incite to Russian Culture. —> RCS FB Group

Official results in Russia’s parliamentary, regional and municipal elections show the ruling United Russia party heads the polls with 54.3 percent after 93 percent of votes counted. Other parties have slammed the record-low turnout as “shameful” and the results as “untrustworthy.”

Russians in Alaska
The first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska is founded in Kodiak Island on September 22, 1784. Although the most known Russian possession in America was Alaska, the Russian Empire’s presence in America reached California. There Russians built Fort Ross to profit from the fur trade in the area.

Nuclear War Avoided
On September 26, 1983, lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov avoided a nuclear war when he detected a false alarm the report from the Soviet early warning system, which was (wrongly) announcing that a missile had been launched from the United States. Thanks to Petrov’s judgement, a nuclear war between the USSR and the USA was avoided. On 19 January 2006 at the UN headquarters he was awarded with the special trophy of the organization “Association of World Citizens” for saving the world from a nuclear war.

Каза́нский Кaфедра́льный Cобо́р
Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg is consecrated on September 27, 1811. It is today one of the largest in Russia and the seat of the Russian Orthodox Church. Emperor Paul I wanted a church in the image of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. The design was the work of Russian architect Andrey Voronikhin.